Re:Hunter S Thompson: A Man Has to BE Something
by a3n on Sunday June 11, 2017 @01:35AM
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> If this piece didn't have a famous person associated with it, no one would read it on it's merit alone.
He wasn't famous when he wrote it, and one person did presumably read it - his friend, who asked for it.
I don't know what his friend did, but Thompson seems to have taken his own advice and succeeded. He lived a life that fit who he was, rather than being a person who fit the life that he fell into.
Like many people, I'm the second type: my life has revolved around the job I'm in, and changes to my life involved finding the next job like the current one; SCDC (Same Cubicle, Different Company). There's been no particular period of discovery, of not knowing what I'd be doing a year from now.
And because of that, I've always felt like I was missing something. I wonder if I ever met myself in passing, the real me.
He wasn't famous when he wrote it, and one person did presumably read it - his friend, who asked for it.
I don't know what his friend did, but Thompson seems to have taken his own advice and succeeded. He lived a life that fit who he was, rather than being a person who fit the life that he fell into.
Like many people, I'm the second type: my life has revolved around the job I'm in, and changes to my life involved finding the next job like the current one; SCDC (Same Cubicle, Different Company). There's been no particular period of discovery, of not knowing what I'd be doing a year from now.
And because of that, I've always felt like I was missing something. I wonder if I ever met myself in passing, the real me.